Is there anything you can think to check? I checked temp - which checked out fine. I disabled all the services I could disable to have it still function. That helped a bit but not a whole lot. I don't know what else to do to get things running better - or what diagnostics to run? It's always using 180 megs of ram - 30 megs are optional programs (her mom has sattelite internet access, and they're required for that). Still that's coming in at 150 megs of ram which seems really heavy to me - but I don't know what else I can turn off to have it use less ram.
This might appear credible to me if I weren't more familiar with linux. Either it's a joke, or it's astroturfing. It's just about far enough over the top to have me think it's a joke. It's just about serious enough to have me think astroturfing. I can't figure out whether to laugh or point out the flaws in the arguement.
Come on. You know Dell is not going to sell a machine that can't run the shipped operating system adequately. Different people have different standards...
I wouldn't think they would either, but win2k pro was the shipped OS and it *doesn't* run it acceptably. It's not something only I notice. Even her and and her mother comment about how much longer it takes than the machines at the office (which have 256-512 megs of ram). Anyway, I finally got her to pick up 2 128mb sticks of ram (it uses RDRAM, thankfully they were 23$ each since she has to buy matched) so hopefully that will aleviate the problem.
My girlfriend's mother's computer has 128 megs of ram. I have tried to get it working at a speed that I can tolerate when I visit their house. Thus far I haven't gotten it to work. It's running win2k pro and even right after it boots, its already using swap. Opening anything takes a good 20-30 seconds and that's just *one* other program. I can't imagine trying to open all 3 (Office/IE/Outlook). I've run spybot/adaware. I've shutdown all the unnecessary services. I really don't know what more I can do to get an acceptable speed out of it.
If you know how to get better speed I would love to hear it, but my personal experience shows that things drag with 128MB of ram in win2k pro.
For anyone keeping track its a standard dell machine. It's got a P4 1.6ghz processor. Not a wonderful machine by any means, but really, it should be able to run win2k. My P3 laptop with similar stats ran kde acceptably (before I switched to fluxbox). I can't speak to gnome. I tried it once on my laptop and spacial nautilius drove me away.
Perhaps you meant the first law? (The conservation of energy?). That applies to a closed system. As the turbine is being moved by the wind (outside the system of the turbine itself), I don't think you'll get far arguing that the first law by its very existance makes your claim true. Note, I'm not saying your wrong, just that the laws of thermodynamics don't necessarily make your statement true.
The electoral college was developed so that you only had to send one person / state to Washington. The individual states could each count the votes in their state, then they know what to tell their guy to vote for. it is the only thing that made sense logistically.
They send the number of representatives as they have electoral votes. One representative per vote. That means the most this guy could throw any election off would be by a single vote. While you lecture for posting about historical inaccuracies... ahh... nevermind, I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from it. =)
Having helped out a couple relatives when I visited them with a wide array of such problems I was thinking the same thing. This really shouldn't just be marketed to teenagers. I'll point them towards it but they'd probably be much more likely to read it if it was not marketed straight at teens.
Perhaps then I wouldn't visit and find their internet connection too slow to use - even for simple tasks (on cable) because of the # of viruses and spyware programs their computers contained. (Over 1000 copies of many different viruses!)
Not quite, but almost. Natural selection says that those most fit will produce the most offspring. Their offspring will inherit their genetic fitness and be able to produce more offspring, etc.. It has little to do with the survival of an individual (life) as it does to do with the survival of the species (making babies). A man who lives to 30 and has 5 kids is more biologically fit than a man who lives to 115 and has no kids.
You're linking to articles by authors that tell us that the CIA is a left wing tool and should be closed down. At least one of them is a reprint from a New York Post article which misstates the findings a senate panel. The case is basically this: Because the republican panel didn't place the blame for bad intelligence with Bush. Ambassador Wilson (guy who exposed the yellow cake from africa assertion as false) is a liar and wrong. This despite it being true that iraq was not in the process of getting yellowcake from africa.
How does a senate panel finding saying that Bush himself is not at fault - in any way make Wilson a liar? He did file a report that turned out to be true.
While the number of sources you've cited is impressive. The arguements made are much less so. I certainly wouldn't call any of them "news" any more than I would call Fahrenheit 9/11 "news."
I'll address a couple of your concerns here.
"The default theme is horrible. After some digging I found Qute which is far nicer on apparantly used to be default. Why they changed it is silly."
Excellent question, I agree.
"The button bar has about 4 buttons. I don't think it's too much to have, by default, new tab, back, forward, stop, reload, home, bookmarks, history, print and downloads. Power users can remove them, beginners will be fine."
I really like mine small but I see where you're coming from. The power users who want it small, can already remove them. The beginners who want all the options have to search for them. I've never thought of it that way but perhaps the mozilla foundation should take note.
" Google search by default takes you to the "I feel lucky" page. What was wrong with the normal search?"
Having installed Firefox 0.9 on both a windows machine and a linux machine, I can say I've never seen this. On the computers I've used, google search always defaults to the standard search. Both of these machines previously had Firefox 0.8 so it is possible that that changes things.
"No good support for IE favourites. No wizard, for importing, no ability to automatically detect them (I had to export then from IE and import), no ability to use the IE method of storing bookmarks and retain compatibility with other parts of the OS that show my bookmarks. Hell, if you want people to migrate, make it easy for their bookmarks!"
I'm not sure about IE but mine imported at install time from the old Firefox. If I recall on the windows box there was an option to import from MSIE.
"Loading times are slow. A splash screen that indicates it's loading would be nicer than sitting looking at my desktop wondering if I really did click the icon. Or faster loading times. But there is no option in the config for that. Looks like i'll have to dig again."
I haven't noticed this. What kind of load times are you seeing? Also: On what type of machine?
"The rule of law is the Governments burden. Whom exactly do YOU turn to when seeking a remedy when one of your RIGHTS are violated? A court of LAW."
I would turn to a court of law but I myself would have to bring my own lawyer. I don't ask the federal government to act as my lawyer in the case.
"Because copyright is a creation of the Federal Government. Not the states, nor the individual (not directly anyway)."
This is why it's dealt with in federal courts. This doesn't mean, however, that the government should be the one prosecuting in a civil case. Patent's are awarded by the government but the individual is responsible for enforcing the patents.
The last arguement there deals with your last point.
I don't use p2p to transfer copyrighted material and this legislation still bothers me. Why is the federal government enforcing copyright? Because the music industry doesn't have the money to pay for it? The gvmt is currently running a large deficit. What makes the gvmt (and thus taxpayers) more able to pay than the **AA. People always think money from the federal government is free and available but our taxes are the money that pays for stuff like this. Where is the fiscal restraint in washington.
(The sad thing is... that last line might get me modded funny).
Contact your reps/senators and let them know that copyright infringement suits over p2p trading are not the government's burden. Even if it were filing suits over any type of copyright infringement (which would actually help the little guy more - when his source code is stolen by a large company/etc) I still don't feel it's the government's place.
Yes, I actually get >50mpg. I have an 00/01 Prius (They're the same exact cars... different VINs). I'm not sure about the new ones but I know mine was only supposed to give ~50 MPG and it does that - occasionally going up higher than it's supposed to. I've had it since they came out and - as someone else mentioned - after the first few thousand miles, mpg are where they're supposed to be.
I have a toyota prius. It's about the same price as a regular car. I get > 50 miles per gallon. It let's me haul stuff around. Go drive one - it has a lot of space (despite what it may look like from the outside). It also handles very well, and, contrary to recent cnn stories - is as safe as any car for rescue workers to get you out of.
I love how the Microsoft representative draws no line between open source software and free-closed source software with his comment "If something's free, there's often a catch." Furthermore the Microsoft and Dell reps both say that the best protection is to keep MSIE up to date. Too bad neither of them mentions mozilla or mozilla firefox. I wouldn't expect the microsoft rep to but I can't believe the article's author doesn't mention it.
Then again - don't use mozilla - according to microsoft - if something's free, there's probably a catch. I bet its full of spyware right now. Just like those microsoft "Smart Tags" we read about yesterday.
"Their research was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the medical research arm of the federal government."
But when a "study" like this comes out, stating the obvious in "OMFG the sky is falling!" terms, you should follow the money.
Kelly and Pace emphasized that the bacteria they found on their shower curtains normally don't cause problems for humans. "We don't want to freak people out, because we're really only talking about immune-compromised people," Kelley said.
*** Hardly the "OMFG the sky is falling!" terms that you describe.
Don't blame the researchers, the article might not be well written but it's not that the researchers were trying to release some life-changing study.
Every time an article involving copyright or science is posted, someone posts a jest about blaming the DMCA, goldfish crackers, or Sea World (but insert random object of abuse here) by karma whores. Often this post is highly moderated. It's like there's karma whoring by the person blaming karma-whores!
At the moment this poster - who admits he didn't RTFA - has his comment rated +4 Funny.
Don't rate me highly - I'll feel I'm karma whoring by attacking the karma whore attacker.
Personally, I wouldn't - though it might depend upon your financial situation. Education is great - and college is an excellent experience, for both intellectual as well as personal development. That said, if you would be leaving college anyway (for financial reasons) and you want to work in that area, then I guess it would probably be a good job to take and get some experience. You might say you can take the job now, and go back to college when you're older - but education is at times quite passionate (not really the best description... but the best I could come up with) - and sometimes when you've grown older you've lost that passion for learning and you're more set in your ways.
"Computer scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle developed software to analyse network traffic and identify chunks of data associated with four known "spyware" programs - Gator, Cydoor, SaveNow and eZula."
So I'd guess the presence of one of those 4 would be considered their definition of having spyware.
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Is there anything you can think to check? I checked temp - which checked out fine. I disabled all the services I could disable to have it still function. That helped a bit but not a whole lot. I don't know what else to do to get things running better - or what diagnostics to run? It's always using 180 megs of ram - 30 megs are optional programs (her mom has sattelite internet access, and they're required for that). Still that's coming in at 150 megs of ram which seems really heavy to me - but I don't know what else I can turn off to have it use less ram.
This might appear credible to me if I weren't more familiar with linux. Either it's a joke, or it's astroturfing. It's just about far enough over the top to have me think it's a joke. It's just about serious enough to have me think astroturfing. I can't figure out whether to laugh or point out the flaws in the arguement.
Come on. You know Dell is not going to sell a machine that can't run the shipped operating system adequately. Different people have different standards...
I wouldn't think they would either, but win2k pro was the shipped OS and it *doesn't* run it acceptably. It's not something only I notice. Even her and and her mother comment about how much longer it takes than the machines at the office (which have 256-512 megs of ram). Anyway, I finally got her to pick up 2 128mb sticks of ram (it uses RDRAM, thankfully they were 23$ each since she has to buy matched) so hopefully that will aleviate the problem.
My girlfriend's mother's computer has 128 megs of ram. I have tried to get it working at a speed that I can tolerate when I visit their house. Thus far I haven't gotten it to work. It's running win2k pro and even right after it boots, its already using swap. Opening anything takes a good 20-30 seconds and that's just *one* other program. I can't imagine trying to open all 3 (Office/IE/Outlook). I've run spybot/adaware. I've shutdown all the unnecessary services. I really don't know what more I can do to get an acceptable speed out of it.
If you know how to get better speed I would love to hear it, but my personal experience shows that things drag with 128MB of ram in win2k pro.
For anyone keeping track its a standard dell machine. It's got a P4 1.6ghz processor. Not a wonderful machine by any means, but really, it should be able to run win2k. My P3 laptop with similar stats ran kde acceptably (before I switched to fluxbox). I can't speak to gnome. I tried it once on my laptop and spacial nautilius drove me away.
The thrid law of thermodynamics? You must be talking about some other mysterious third law of thermodyanics.
Perhaps you meant the first law? (The conservation of energy?). That applies to a closed system. As the turbine is being moved by the wind (outside the system of the turbine itself), I don't think you'll get far arguing that the first law by its very existance makes your claim true. Note, I'm not saying your wrong, just that the laws of thermodynamics don't necessarily make your statement true.
Ehh?
The electoral college was developed so that you only had to send one person / state to Washington. The individual states could each count the votes in their state, then they know what to tell their guy to vote for. it is the only thing that made sense logistically.
They send the number of representatives as they have electoral votes. One representative per vote. That means the most this guy could throw any election off would be by a single vote. While you lecture for posting about historical inaccuracies... ahh... nevermind, I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from it. =)
Having helped out a couple relatives when I visited them with a wide array of such problems I was thinking the same thing. This really shouldn't just be marketed to teenagers. I'll point them towards it but they'd probably be much more likely to read it if it was not marketed straight at teens.
Perhaps then I wouldn't visit and find their internet connection too slow to use - even for simple tasks (on cable) because of the # of viruses and spyware programs their computers contained. (Over 1000 copies of many different viruses!)
If you check their website you see they said 10 terabyte to 10 petabyte disks with that graphic next to it. That explains that image.
For the Maxstor inaccuracy, I have no clue if that's explainable.
Not quite, but almost. Natural selection says that those most fit will produce the most offspring. Their offspring will inherit their genetic fitness and be able to produce more offspring, etc.. It has little to do with the survival of an individual (life) as it does to do with the survival of the species (making babies). A man who lives to 30 and has 5 kids is more biologically fit than a man who lives to 115 and has no kids.
your other comment
I think you might get moderated redundant because of your own post.
Also, I'd argue that the US Government HAS led us into further losses of money and lives in iraq, but that is another reply for another day.
The documents were handed over during discovery, or at least, that's what it says there in the article.
This means neither corporate espionage nor the DMCA will be involved.
You're linking to articles by authors that tell us that the CIA is a left wing tool and should be closed down. At least one of them is a reprint from a New York Post article which misstates the findings a senate panel. The case is basically this: Because the republican panel didn't place the blame for bad intelligence with Bush. Ambassador Wilson (guy who exposed the yellow cake from africa assertion as false) is a liar and wrong. This despite it being true that iraq was not in the process of getting yellowcake from africa.
How does a senate panel finding saying that Bush himself is not at fault - in any way make Wilson a liar? He did file a report that turned out to be true.
While the number of sources you've cited is impressive. The arguements made are much less so. I certainly wouldn't call any of them "news" any more than I would call Fahrenheit 9/11 "news."
I'll address a couple of your concerns here. "The default theme is horrible. After some digging I found Qute which is far nicer on apparantly used to be default. Why they changed it is silly." Excellent question, I agree. "The button bar has about 4 buttons. I don't think it's too much to have, by default, new tab, back, forward, stop, reload, home, bookmarks, history, print and downloads. Power users can remove them, beginners will be fine." I really like mine small but I see where you're coming from. The power users who want it small, can already remove them. The beginners who want all the options have to search for them. I've never thought of it that way but perhaps the mozilla foundation should take note. " Google search by default takes you to the "I feel lucky" page. What was wrong with the normal search?" Having installed Firefox 0.9 on both a windows machine and a linux machine, I can say I've never seen this. On the computers I've used, google search always defaults to the standard search. Both of these machines previously had Firefox 0.8 so it is possible that that changes things. "No good support for IE favourites. No wizard, for importing, no ability to automatically detect them (I had to export then from IE and import), no ability to use the IE method of storing bookmarks and retain compatibility with other parts of the OS that show my bookmarks. Hell, if you want people to migrate, make it easy for their bookmarks!" I'm not sure about IE but mine imported at install time from the old Firefox. If I recall on the windows box there was an option to import from MSIE. "Loading times are slow. A splash screen that indicates it's loading would be nicer than sitting looking at my desktop wondering if I really did click the icon. Or faster loading times. But there is no option in the config for that. Looks like i'll have to dig again." I haven't noticed this. What kind of load times are you seeing? Also: On what type of machine?
"The rule of law is the Governments burden. Whom exactly do YOU turn to when seeking a remedy when one of your RIGHTS are violated? A court of LAW."
I would turn to a court of law but I myself would have to bring my own lawyer. I don't ask the federal government to act as my lawyer in the case.
"Because copyright is a creation of the Federal Government. Not the states, nor the individual (not directly anyway)."
This is why it's dealt with in federal courts. This doesn't mean, however, that the government should be the one prosecuting in a civil case. Patent's are awarded by the government but the individual is responsible for enforcing the patents.
The last arguement there deals with your last point.
I don't use p2p to transfer copyrighted material and this legislation still bothers me. Why is the federal government enforcing copyright? Because the music industry doesn't have the money to pay for it? The gvmt is currently running a large deficit. What makes the gvmt (and thus taxpayers) more able to pay than the **AA. People always think money from the federal government is free and available but our taxes are the money that pays for stuff like this. Where is the fiscal restraint in washington. (The sad thing is... that last line might get me modded funny). Contact your reps/senators and let them know that copyright infringement suits over p2p trading are not the government's burden. Even if it were filing suits over any type of copyright infringement (which would actually help the little guy more - when his source code is stolen by a large company/etc) I still don't feel it's the government's place.
Yes, I actually get >50mpg. I have an 00/01 Prius (They're the same exact cars... different VINs). I'm not sure about the new ones but I know mine was only supposed to give ~50 MPG and it does that - occasionally going up higher than it's supposed to. I've had it since they came out and - as someone else mentioned - after the first few thousand miles, mpg are where they're supposed to be.
I have a toyota prius. It's about the same price as a regular car. I get > 50 miles per gallon. It let's me haul stuff around. Go drive one - it has a lot of space (despite what it may look like from the outside). It also handles very well, and, contrary to recent cnn stories - is as safe as any car for rescue workers to get you out of.
Strange. The links work for me with Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (unless they've been corrected already and I missed the time they didn't work).
I love how the Microsoft representative draws no line between open source software and free-closed source software with his comment "If something's free, there's often a catch." Furthermore the Microsoft and Dell reps both say that the best protection is to keep MSIE up to date. Too bad neither of them mentions mozilla or mozilla firefox. I wouldn't expect the microsoft rep to but I can't believe the article's author doesn't mention it.
Then again - don't use mozilla - according to microsoft - if something's free, there's probably a catch. I bet its full of spyware right now. Just like those microsoft "Smart Tags" we read about yesterday.
Who pays for "studies" like this?
"Their research was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the medical research arm of the federal government."
But when a "study" like this comes out, stating the obvious in "OMFG the sky is falling!" terms, you should follow the money.
Kelly and Pace emphasized that the bacteria they found on their shower curtains normally don't cause problems for humans. "We don't want to freak people out, because we're really only talking about immune-compromised people," Kelley said.
***
Hardly the "OMFG the sky is falling!" terms that you describe.
Don't blame the researchers, the article might not be well written but it's not that the researchers were trying to release some life-changing study.
Every time an article involving copyright or science is posted, someone posts a jest about blaming the DMCA, goldfish crackers, or Sea World (but insert random object of abuse here) by karma whores. Often this post is highly moderated. It's like there's karma whoring by the person blaming karma-whores! At the moment this poster - who admits he didn't RTFA - has his comment rated +4 Funny. Don't rate me highly - I'll feel I'm karma whoring by attacking the karma whore attacker.
Personally, I wouldn't - though it might depend upon your financial situation. Education is great - and college is an excellent experience, for both intellectual as well as personal development. That said, if you would be leaving college anyway (for financial reasons) and you want to work in that area, then I guess it would probably be a good job to take and get some experience. You might say you can take the job now, and go back to college when you're older - but education is at times quite passionate (not really the best description... but the best I could come up with) - and sometimes when you've grown older you've lost that passion for learning and you're more set in your ways.
From the article:
"Computer scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle developed software to analyse network traffic and identify chunks of data associated with four known "spyware" programs - Gator, Cydoor, SaveNow and eZula."
So I'd guess the presence of one of those 4 would be considered their definition of having spyware.